Tho mean thy birth (Benjamin Cooke)
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- (Posted 2024-05-11) CPDL #80623: Landscape: Score only:
- Editor: Andrew Pink (submitted 2024-05-11). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 368 kB Copyright: CC BY NC ND
- Edition notes: This edition was made using the two autograph copies of the work to be found in the collection of The Royal College of Music, London; ms. 814.46 & ms. 817.11.This edition has a full scholarly editorial preface. ©Andrew Pink 2012 CC BY-NC-ND
General Information
Title: Tho Mean Thy Birth
Composer: Benjamin Cooke
Lyricist: John Hughes
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: TTB
Genre: Secular, Glee
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 2012
Description: This three-part glee (T.T.B. unacc.) of 1773 by Benjamin Cooke (1734–1793) sets a text by John Hughes (1677–1720) in praise of Thomas Britton (1644–1714) a London coal merchant and influential amateur London music-lover and concert promoter.
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Original text and translations
English text
Tho mean thy birth yet in thy humble cell
Did gentle peace and arts unpurchas'd dwell.
Well pleas'd Apollo thither led his train
And Music warbl'd in her sweetest strain,
Silenius so as fables tell and Jove
Came willing guests to poor Philomen's grove.
Let useless pomp behold and blush to find
So low a station and such a lib'ral mind.